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The mad dog bites his master.

Make haste slowly.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Make not two sorrows of one.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.  --Tennessee Williams (1911-83)

Malice hurts itself most.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.  --J(ohn) P(ierpont) Morgan (1837-1913)

A man becomes learned by asking questions.

A man can die but once.

A man cannot be robbed of his learning.

Man errs so long as he strives.  --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.   --Anton(ie) van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.  --John F(itzgerald) Kennedy (1917-63)

Man is condemned to be free.  --Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80)

A man is known by the company he keeps.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.  --Oliver (Brooke) Herford (1863-1935)

Man is no more than a reed, the weakest in nature. But he is a thinking reed.  --Blaise Pascal (1623-62): Pensées  

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.  --Richard M(ilhous) Nixon (1913-94)

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.  --Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)

Man is the creature of circumstance(s).

Man is the lord of creation.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.  --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Man proposes, God disposes.  -GO TO AN ORACLE: "|;-D)"? or "|:-<)"?-

Man shall [can] not live on [by] bread alone.  --Bible: Matthew  Chapter 4:4

The man who doesn't read good books has no over the man who can't read them.  --Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.  --Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899-1961)  

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Man with the head, woman with the heart.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.  --Erich Fromm (1900-80): Man for Himself

A man's walking is a succession of falls.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.  --Tom(my) [Thomas Charles] Lasorda (1927-)  

Manners are stronger than laws.

Manners know distance.

Manners make the man.

A man's mind often gives him warning of evil to come.

Many a little makes a mickle.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Many go (out) for wool and come back [home] shorn.

Many hands make light work.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Many strokes fell great oaks.

Many words will not fill a bushel basket.

Marry in haste, and repent at [in] leisure.

May the Force be with you!  --George Lucas (1944-): Star Wars

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Men are blind in their own cause.

Men make houses, women make home(s).

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

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Might is right.

Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell a heaven.  --Satan  --John Milton (1608-74): Paradise Lost  bk.1

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.  --Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

The mind rules the body.

Mind your own business.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.  --Charles (John Huffam) Dickens (1812-70)

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.  --Bern(h)ard Berenson (1865-1959)

Misery loves company.

Misery makes strange bedfellows.

Misfortunes never [seldom] come singly.

(An inch of) A miss is as good as a mile.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.  --Katherine (Meyer) Graham (1917-)

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Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's child has far to go; Friday's child is loving and giving; Saturday's child works hard for a living; and the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.  --from Mother Goose

Money comes and goes.

Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

Money is the poor man's credit card.  --(Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911-80)

Money, like dung, does no good till it is spread.

Money makes the mare (to) go.

Money makes the money.

Money talks.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.  --Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside. And only he who listens can speak.  --Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1905-61)

More haste, less speed.

The more I learn the more I realize I don't know. The more I realize I don't know the more I want to learn.  --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

More matter with less art.  --William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet

The more noble the more humble.

The more, the better.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.  --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The more you get, the more you want.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.  --Thales (c.640-546?B.C.)

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.  --William Burnham

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.  --Theodore Hesburgh

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  --Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.  --Helen (Adams) Keller (1880-1968)

The mountains have brought forth a mouse.  --Aesop (c.620-c.560B.C.)

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Much coin, much care.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.  --Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.  --Louis Armstrong (1901-71)

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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.  --Pete Rose (1941-)

My great-grandmama told my grandmama ... and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.  --Gayl Jones (1949-): Corregidora

My mind is set.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.  --Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

My own freedom can only exist if the other is also free.  --Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)

My Very Earnest [Educated] Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.